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I’ve not purchased an Integra (yet) but I’ve just bought this for £300. 

No engine/box but it’s rust free, comes with rare Civic EG alloys, Coilovers, EP3 Seats and an exhaust I don’t need.. 

Alloys - £100 

Seats - £70-£80 

Exhaust - £90.00 

Un-needed bits of old civic -£120  

= Making money on a re-shell! Over the moon. 

This means I can weld a roll cage in and get serious with it.. leaving me to enjoy a DC2 as it should be. I.E mostly original! :) 

 

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On 27/01/2018 at 8:29 AM, SamKidney said:

I’ve not purchased an Integra (yet) but I’ve just bought this for £300. 

No engine/box but it’s rust free, comes with rare Civic EG alloys, Coilovers, EP3 Seats and an exhaust I don’t need.. 

Alloys - £100 

Seats - £70-£80 

Exhaust - £90.00 

Un-needed bits of old civic -£120  

= Making money on a re-shell! Over the moon. 

This means I can weld a roll cage in and get serious with it.. leaving me to enjoy a DC2 as it should be. I.E mostly original! :) 

 

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Yessssss, Honda love! Looks nice man.

The wheels are Honda Fat Fives, to be honest not *too* rare, but certainly desirable! Rare as shit in Australia though, literally can't find a single wheel ha.

In car news, I'm back in a Honda, have been for a while

I also have a YouTube channel now which covers a lot of the Australian car scene, if interested.

https://www.youtube.com/joydrive

At the weekend Kia gave me a Stinger 300S, it was insanely awesome. Can not recommend enough. I've also managed to get my hands on a Civic FK8 to review a couple of months ago - again a fantastic car.

Nice to see some great whips in here still! :D

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Fat Fives are quite desireable over here and not often seen in the classifieds. Already got a bidding war going on them :D 

I get it tomorrow and will be going over it throroughly Friday evening. Looking forward to getting stuck into a bit of a project again. A few plans for it before my K swap goes in! 

Work wise, my Honda side of it, has been upcoming too. 

Currently mid-strip down and inspection of a B16B out of a friends EK9 Type R I’m rebuilding. Very tired Engine this.. 

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Recovered another lads Civic Jordan last night too. Poor chaps only had it 24 hours and the head gaskets gone. Very clean shell though and the standard B16a2 has been adorned with EK9 pistons to bump up the C.R and EK9 cams to match! 

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B18 high compression engine for the blue CRX is in planning and nearing a start, potential B16 Turbo on the cards and two K series gearboxes to build up with M Factory LSDs and Carbon syncros. 

In my element :D 

 

 

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When you order a top end basket kit, radiator, rad hoses, heater hoses, thermostat, thermostat housing, hoses, water pump, fan kit and heater take offs to combat the water leak you have, only to find the first heater hose you come to has a split in it  :lol:.

Ahh well, jobs need doing anyway.

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Well i've done a fall back in love with Boris, perfect timing ready for valentines too...
 
I swapped the clio over with the Corsa as I needed to fix the handbrake on it, so out Boris went and I figured i'll give him a wash whilst he's outside. Really glad I did as i've come away smiling so much and realised that he's now at a level that i'm really happy with (the spoiler has helped massively)
 
Exterior pictures
 
39371211344_27a23473f7_b.jpg20180204_164108 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
39183283555_eee64ba4cb_b.jpg20180204_164113 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
39371185104_cc186215f4_b.jpg20180204_164121 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
25209789797_a56b2f2784_b.jpg20180204_164146 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
39371146734_7faf39d9e0_b.jpg20180204_164159 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
40049056072_e7bdeac152_b.jpg20180204_165640 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
26208114868_092271dc63_b.jpg20180204_164210 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
40049185252_4cebe7904b_b.jpg20180204_164215 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
26208151108_b13ee8e56e_b.jpg20180204_164251 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
25209657227_7029b5824e_b.jpg20180204_164312 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
40081940851_f0beab9c61_b.jpg20180204_164348 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
28301414399_145bd167a2_b.jpg20180204_164523 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
Theres a hole in the floor that needs welding up asap. It's from where the pedal box used to be.
 
39370982644_4ceca31e59_b.jpg20180204_164600 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
Engine bay, i've got a clean bottle to go in but the one you see is on loan until I flush the coolant out etc. The heatshielding is all removed ready for the exhaust too.
 
40049087552_891c34fef2_b.jpg20180204_164703 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
 
40049054842_7f7302b362_b.jpg20180204_164719 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
40049042422_110ba9ff5d_b.jpg20180204_164728 by dann2707, on Flickr
 
 
I'm just waiting for the exhaust to turbo flange to be laser cut at the moment, then I need to sell this Corsa i've got then I can get the exhaust made and it's happy boostings from there.
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Clio's looking great dude, bet you can't wait to get back to boosting around now!

8 minutes ago, dann2707 said:
Well i've done a fall back in love with [my car]
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I've done the exact opposite with mine and its constant desire to be a right royal pain in the ass. Seriously close to taking it off the road, stripping the good stuff off it and picking up a fresh car (without years of neglect and poorly-executed mods) to start afresh.

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Clio looks fantastic Dan! Be worth the hard work and effort when it’s working for sure. 

I looked round the replacement coupe today. It’s good but I’m unsure if I want to track it. Would make an excellent everyday car with a B16/B18 in which could be done at little cost and leave me with enough funds to keep on searching for a DC2 to plonk the K into. Decisions decisions. 

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It's in a pretty good state to be honest. I took the motor out as the clutch let go and I'd had enough of spending all my spare money and time fixing it so bought a polo.

It's currently just missing it's motor and wiring loom. I took the loom out as it's been bodged a million times and was borderline dangerous. So I built a basic loom to power the lights, wipers, horn, fan, ignition and gauges as that's all that is left really. I even have a new clutch and flywheel to go back in just never got the oomph to do it.

A few good weekends would see it back on the road but I'd rather spend time on it and get it right and nice this time. I'm contemplating a new colour as the body is rust free and would just need a scrub up and paint, but that might be next year.

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Yeah I always wanted to paint it island blue but never really was in a position to do it. Job list mostly is..

Fit yellow band master cylinder and early pedal box

Wire the car up  (looms already made just needs laying and fitting up)

Clutch, drop engine in

Get valve guides done to finally cure the smoke issue

Tinker till works...

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Yeah gonna loose the servo for intercooler pipework space, plus I needed a new master cylinder anyway so was convenient timing.

Thinking of running fresh brake lines through the whole car while I'm at it. It's a pretty inexpensive job and worthwhile doing while I'm at it.

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Few Motoring based things gone on just lately,

saw Dan cox on the A50 in his green goblin. Not that much faster than my 44t DAF artic :lol:

crashed the Monte on Boxing Day, got it repaired, it's now back on the road

Did the front brakes on the monte, replaced them at 53k with Pagid pads and disks from Euro car parts, the difference from standard is unreal

Been ousted from my old 64 plate DAF at work into a 16 plate, drive completely differently. Gearbox software/mapping is gash. Too much focused on eco driving and fuel saving. With eco mode on it struggles to get past 40 unless you turn it off, and it won't hold onto a gear unless you override it and put it in manual, which kinda defeats the object of a semi auto. Hard work to drive smoothly, being as that we are encouraged to keep it in the green band and not go into the blue. Don't know if there's many other truckers on here that know what I'm on about, I would genuinely have an MAN over a DAF nowadays

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Millions miles from being a truck, but I feel your pain in my 120d Sport. Sometimes I put it in Eco Pro just to try and get some economy on the motorway and it's fine for that, but as soon as you go up a slip road and pull away at a roundabout it just feels broken.

You have to floor it to get anywhere, which then makes your economy bad...

It's not actually that much different to sport mode in terms of fuel economy anyway, so I only use it on long motorway stretches.

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